It's been roughly three years since Margie was diagnosed with ALS. Within the last year, she's progressively lost her ability to speak, but not her voice.
"I can still understand her, basically," Butch Darlington said about his wife, Margie."We're together 24-7, 365."
In September 2022, Margie did what is known as"voice banking." With the help of a speech pathologist, Margie recorded roughly 350 sentences that were then put into software that uses artificial intelligence to create a voice that sounds like her own. The technology is not perfect, Roche admits. She said it has a way to go when it comes to sounding natural.
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